CLEVELAND, Ohio – The news usually moves rather quickly
on cleveland.com, and that has been the
case today in the aftermath of an exciting start to the NFL Draft. Here are
some of the stories from the past 12 hours you might have missed, including Johnny
Manziel's introduction to Cleveland, Jim Tressel's new job as president of
Youngstown State University and the death of plans to create a "trash-to-energy"
facility in Cleveland.

Johnny Football comes to Cleveland

Cleveland Browns general manager Ray Farmer (far right) and head coach Mike Pettine (far left) hold the jerseys of their first-round draft picks Johnny Manziel (center right) and Justin Gilbert to the media May 9, 2014 at the Browns' headquarters in Berea.

New Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel
vowed Friday to tone town the "Johnny'' and focus on the "Football.''

"Really, there's no time
for it now,'' he said. "I'm committed to getting better.''

Manziel and fellow first-round pick
Justin Gilbert met the media in a 27-minute press conference that started at 2
p.m. at the team's facility. Thursday night, Gilbert was taken with the No. 8
overall pick in NFL Draft 2014; later in the evening, the Browns moved up four
spots to take the Texas A&M quarterback 22nd overall.

Manziel was asked about whether his
"Johnny Football" persona is something that can be a burden, given
all the attention and expectations. He was asked if he is "Johnny Football."

The Cleveland Catholic diocese has expanded the âÂÂmorality clauseâÂÂ in its contract for teachers at more than 100 elementary schools, spelling out in detail a long list of activities teachers must agree to avoid or they will lose their jobs.Marvin Fong/The Plain Dealer

The Cleveland Catholic diocese has
expanded the "morality clause" in its contract for teachers at more than 100
elementary schools, spelling out in detail a long list of activities teachers
must agree to avoid or they will lose their jobs.

YSU's board of trustees voted unanimously
today to offer the position of president to Tressel, executive vice president
for student success at the University of Akron.

The appointment is not final until contract
terms can be reached, trustees said.

"After fully examining each and every
candidate and reviewing the input from hundreds of individuals across the
campus and the community, the Board of Trustees believes Mr. Tressel is the
right individual at the right time to lead Youngstown State University," trustee
chairman Sudershan Garg said in a press release. "Mr. Tressel has the
personality and leadership skills, in addition to widespread community support,
to dramatically raise YSU''s profile and prominence across Ohio and the
nation."

Tressel returns to the Mahoning Valley and
the institution where he coached football from 1986 to 2000. | Read
Karen Farkas' story

Cleveland's "trash-to-energy" facility proposal scrapped

Shoveling trash at Cleveland's Ridge Road garbage transfer station -- once the proposed site of a controversial waste-to-energy plant. Marvin Fong, The Plain Dealer

A long-debated proposition to
build an expensive and controversial trash-to-energy plant in Cleveland is
dead.

City officials last week issued
a call for proposals to companies capable of building, owning and operating a
waste management facility that would separate the city's recyclables and
organic materials for processing and condense the remaining trash into fuel
pellets to be sold as a coal alternative to Cleveland Thermal, a local company
that supplies steam to the city, county and downtown businesses.

The specifications, however,
abandon the city's earlier vision for a $180 million facility that could burn
the pellets at the Ridge Road garbage transfer station to generate electricity
for city-owned Cleveland Public Power — a process known as gasification.

City officials had argued that
gasification would help CPP meet its goals to tap into more renewable energy
sources, while providing an alternative to dispatching 230,000 tons of trash to
Ohio landfills every year. | Read
Leila Atassi's story

MetroHealth Medical Center unveils transformation plan

In this architect's rendering of a re-imagined MetroHealth campus, separate, glass-surfaced buildings interspersed with broad green spaces and mixed-use areas take the place of the dense masonry you see today. The circular images show the types of atmosphere the architects of HKS Inc. hope to create within discrete pockets of the redesigned complex. In this rendering, north is toward your right; you are looking west from above Riverside Cemetery.HKS

During four days in early January, when the "polar
vortex" drove temperatures in Northeast Ohio down to 10 below zero,
MetroHealth Medical Center was nearly evacuated — twice — as the health
system's aging infrastructure buckled under the extreme cold. Pipes froze and
burst, patient rooms flooded, toilets blew their tops and the hospital's
limping steam heat system nearly failed.

MetroHealth CEO Dr. Akram Boutros knew from
the day of his arrival in Cleveland last May that the county health system's
main campus on West 25th Street was badly in need of an overhaul. It wasn't
until this winter, however, that it became clear just how dire the situation was.

Boutros told the story to more than 500
people Friday morning at the health system's Annual Stakeholder's meeting, held
for the first time at the Convention Center in a bid to involve more of the
community in the public hospital's internal planning process.

"It was like Niagara Falls," Boutros told the
Plain Dealer in a meeting last week, describing how water fell from one floor
to the next. "That brought home the urgency of this for us. We must begin
replacing these buildings — they're completely outdated." | Read
Brie Zeltner's story

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